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10 Weekend Reads June 12, 2021 6:55am by Barry Ritholtz
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish blend coffee, grab a seat on the massage chair, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads:
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There’s a New Vision for Crypto, and It’s Wildly Different From Bitcoin Give Bitcoin some credit: A nearly $1 trillion asset has been memed into existence, despite being backed by nothing. The market is still treating the rest of the crypto space as a monolith. It’s time for that to change. (Bloomberg)
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How An Ex-Semipro Poker Player Bet Big And Won The $4.3 Trillion Mortgage Market Nima Ghamsari and his Blend Labs weaned the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders off of paper and just in time to prevent a pandemic meltdown. (Forbes)
AAP Vows to Protect Copyright from All Challengers publishersweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from publishersweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
AAP Annual Meeting Speakers: Lemon, Klobuchar, Stone
Three speakers were heard on issues of racial and social justice, monopoly power, and the evolution of very big tech in book retail.
Barbed wire is placed near the US Capitol on January 19 before the January 20 Biden inauguration. Sen. Amy Klobuchar talked at the Association of American Publishers of the inauguration being staged with ‘spray painting on the columns and makeshift windows behind us.’ Image – Getty iStockhpoto: ALF Snaiper
See also our coverage of the leadership elements of the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting. That story is here.
Amazon, Antitrust, and Nuance